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Enterprise software sales techniques are often mocked but they're clearly producing results. If you're an enterprise buyer, you don't care about a hip look and getting through the sales process as fast as possible, like many small customers do.

I think comparing Adobe's page to Optimizely and declaring who is eating their own dog food does not offer any insight. In enterprise sales, there are so many other steps in sales the funnel to worry about than the web page. You need to optimize in places that have the highest returns. At most, I'd guess that Adobe is testing things on that page to capture leads that are probably not even apparent.
For me, meditation is a way of separating myself from the issues I'm dealing with. The act of distancing my mind from the issue itself provides renewed vigor when returning to the problem.
The idea has been explored in "the literature", which in this case is a really fancy-pants way of saying "science fiction". In the general case, since we can't figure out what the consequences of a crash are, I don't think I'd recommend it, but if we can get specifics, who knows?

One easily-linked example: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/
There's nothing in this article that isn't said better elsewhere. I'd recommend the (free, online) Mindfulness in Plain English: http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html (also available as a "real" book).
+1 and management should create a culture where enthusiastic individuals have a safe environment to voice and test their ideas. Management across the board also has to know and drive the business strategy which should involve killing ideas at times.

I can't imagine a large company with one person, the "CDO" all-knowing enough to govern all ideas within the company. Even the best entrepreneurs bet on bad ideas and disregard great ideas at times. Everyone should scrutinize ideas and collaborate on the decent ones to make them better.

We should aim to create a sustainable engine of innovation fueled by great people up and down the ranks rather than a role.
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"Don’t get misled by the hype of the hustler and mistake action for effectiveness."

"Holding on too tight to the reigns will only wear out your grip and you’ll fall off the horse."

Great post. Thanks for solid advice at a time when it's needed.
I just thought of this method: randomize the input names on each form load, and include they key to the hash in a hidden field. This way the bot would have to be smart enough to go off field order instead of name (you could even randomize field order using some clever CSS). Or are they already smart enough to deal with that?
Yeah, that'd be awesome to do a placement at a scaling startup.
Even in the context of social movements it's rather meaningless when used as a form of argument for something.
couldn't agree more. I don't understand why mega productions (in the scheme of things) that are effectively pre-orders as Project Eternity are OK while other categories as home improvement or fitness gadgets are shunned upon. There is a complete lack of transparency & coherence to Kickstarter's red lines.
I understand that they see themselves as more of a substitute to the national endowment of arts than what effectively they are becoming, a crowd-funding VC (minus ceding equity or IP, even better for the creators) , but they should just embrace where their backers are taking them. Whether it's funding arts or hardware projects, there is plenty of "Good" in removing friction from the entrepreneurial process. Both are noble missions & anything that enlarges the pool of backers to the site should be welcomed with both hands.
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Sounds good! I'll be there.
congrats guys, can't wait to start using it!
Thanks so much Hany, I really appreciate it. I'll email you asap.
Yes, because guess what? I think the premiums just went up a bit!
A professional angel (and certainly VC) is a lot less personally pissed off at losing $25-200k in an investment than a purchaser of a product is at not receiving a $25 product. Courts are also much more sympathetic (rightly) to the individual consumer than to an investor in this case, so that $25 loss (x 1000 people) could turn into a huge judgment against Kickstarter, etc.
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What do Mitt Romney and Curt Schilling have in common
That would be awesome. What's a good way to get ahold of you?
I'm pretty sure I saw ball lightening once when I was a child. It was in the courtyard of our house during a lightning store - a ball of translucent orange that was stationary for a moment before whisking away.

Nobody ever believed me.
Here's an alternative that I wrote after reading about Lockitron.

http://blog.crowdint.com/2012/10/13/crowdfunding-your-projec...
Here's a slightly less superficial version of the same article from CSIRO who produced the work: http://www.csiro.au/en/Portals/Media/CSIRO-explains-the-myst...

Here's the paper: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2012/2012JD017921.shtml
If you need it, I will bring it.
Start with the PH7 engine which is an open source embedded PHP engine (useful tool to add web interfaces to your C/C++ application). It have a very nice and clean documentation and readable code.
Here is the URL: http://ph7.symisc.net/
It could also simply be monitored for CPU usage, and have the process auto-terminate when spiked by recursive children. Creating our own Virtual Earth might then destroy the universe. :P

Another disturbing thought: if our universe were spun up or down like we do virtual machines, would we even notice?
No thanks. No matter how simple you make a sign-up process, it'll always turn people away.
Peter Norvig may be an expert on scientific methodology, but when it comes to comedy he's not the first source I would turn to.

Peter Norvig is in the top ten when it comes to humorous commentary on the foibles of PowerPoint.

http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm

The serious author on that subject is Edward Tufte.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
That would be amazing. Emailing you now.
You're right. I remember them discussing attempting to raise the orbit with onboard fuel, but I doubt that was possible.

My point was more that, prior to the engine failure, raising the orbit with the second stage was considered non-risky. You're correct that after the failure, raising the orbit with the second stage was risky.
I'm reminded of a story about pablo picasso. It ended something like...

“My dear lady, it took me 30 years to do that.”
https://github.com/changs/piki
> Though there's likely a bound on how many layers deep we can go

Yes. The universe only has so much computing power, and any universe we simulate will have less.
Flash is huge, it runs a dynamic-language VM which is always hard to secure, and it is constantly adding APIs. That sort of program tends to have security vulnerabilities all the time, in fact exactly like browsers do - they also fit the three traits mentioned above.

But, better to have one such program - a browser - than two - a plugin as complex as a browser, inside a browser.
I agree, and I think NASA does too. They're just really conservative about the safety of the ISS (understandably so).
LG's supposed Nexus 4 given full review treatment ahead of official announcement
13,000 employees!!!???
This isn't a comment about Soragora, but rather this "Google Play Store".

I clicked through to the demo from the Soragora site, clicked Install, and just got this message: "You haven't accessed the Google Play Store app (the white shopping bag app icon) on your device with this email account."

No further details about what I should do, or calls to action, or anything that would actually let me play this game or any other game.

Furthermore, I couldn't even copy the damn message text directly. I had to go into the DOM editor and find it there.

Should anyone consider spending their time and resources developing apps or games for an interface and experience this is so sub-par?
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Kind of disappointing how stagnant PayPal has become. I know innovators dilemma and all, but it seems like their peak was the ability to properly deal with fraud & security (a sort of a right of passage for all companies that deal with real money). Since then, it just feels like eBay has been milking the cash cow. Shame.

Good luck to Stripe and co, they are doing what PayPal should have been doing all along: iterating the platform.
I doubt that Stripe and Braintree will be interested in employees in the bottom 3% of PayPal.
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Who here cringes every time they hear "personal brands"?
I actually love the color scheme. Horses for courses, I suppose.
> how litte researchers and academics care about the metrics of dissemination

I think if anything, the pendulum has shifted rapidly to the other direction, where many (and especially many in administration) care for little besides metrics. Impact factors, acceptance rates, citation counts, h-indices, media "hits", etc. are the currencies that rule academic promotion.
Opa - Gangnam style: http://opalang.org/gangnam.style.html

Jokes aside, this seems like a serious project, and has some sort of connection to OWASP https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Opa

a secure javascript framework? write server side and client side in the same language (anyone said Meteor)? I'm going to try this.

prediction: HN front page posts about opa will exceed posts about Go in the next year.

EDIT: unfortunately, using TypeScript will not work here, seems Opa is generating JavaScript itself. Still interesting in any case.
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It's disappointing that Microsoft Research is spending resources trying to solve a problem that Microsoft's Internet Explorer is creating: a frustrating cross-browser development process due to longstanding legacy clients.
Ask HN: How to start a career?
I'm a high school student with moderate programming experience and with a small amount of both freelance and corporate work experience. I certainly intend to do this for a living, but I'm relatively unsure as to how I should progress. I've heard contradictory evaluations of the value of a CS degree, and I'm not sure where I ought to be focusing my efforts in order to obtain the greatest efficiency. Should I strive for breadth of programming knowledge, or focus on a single skill? Will paid work net me more experience than if I were to invest my time in open source contribution?

How did you start your career?
It would nonetheless be an easy way to get some valuable knowledge from the internals of paypal.
It's only ambiguous if you ignore how the numbers are separated. It's also probably obvious from context whether or not it's a US telephone number.
That is not a fact.
>My theory is that Flash doesn't make Adobe any money

They would have dropped it like a hot potato if that would have been the case.

They make money with the fairly expensive authoring tool.
Well, I personally saw a game of life post earlier today. Upon doing a google search I independently discovered this search result (slightly later than the OP). If I were so motivated I would have posted it myself.
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It should be possible to make a closed loop video. When you zoom out to the full meta level it is exactly the same as the initial frame of the movie. Then the whole thing can be looped seamless forever, as you zoom out to meta-meta-meta levels.
Usually the data is a combination of externally received information and internal calculations/annotations. I just use copious asserts, and one line:

assert bubble_sort(data) == sort(data)

Since this always runs during development it will automatically pick up internal and external changes.

What you laid out is explicitly testing everything against everything else and is 100% comprehensive. Bubble sort is less than 100% comprehensive but still gives good coverage, while optimised sorts just mean you get lucky in the face of buggy comparisons.
Indeed. Given how stagnant Paypal seems to be (at least from the outside), I suspect that many of the good employees interested in the problem space left for greener pastures a while ago.
I'm not a security expert... but I'd love to hear from one about this. I know the old rule about physical access means your computer is pretty much 0wned already, but this seems to make it phenomenally easy.... especially considering this statement:

As of version 0.2.0, it is able to unlock Windows 8 SP0, Windows 7 SP0-1, Vista SP0 and SP2, Windows XP SP2-3, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion, Ubuntu 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04 x86 and x64-bit machines. Signatures are added by request. <--- Basically these are the OS's we've done so far, many more to come!

tl; dr; Can we get a security wizard's input on this tool?
Yes, the actuarial problem here is actually quite interesting, because one question it must address is the probability of failure. I wonder how much insight the insurers were given into safety margins on the spacecraft?

[Edit: OK, a link on spacecraft actuarial methods: http://www.casact.org/pubs/forum/00fforum/00ff047.pdf]
Knowledge on how to suck, yes.
Microsoft has 90,000
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Am I alone in thinking that all these javascript "frameworks" are getting out of control? Variety is the spice of life and all, but how about focusing on a single (open source) project, instead of all these fragmented one-offs?
I didn't really publicly 'reduce' anyone to anything. Kinda like what you did here. But hey okay then.

For the record, I addressed a throwaway account and didn't name any names.
Huh? Do you work in their PR or something?
And specifically, being underpowered, the orbit was probably highly elliptical.
I don't see any reason why you should guess that.
I already created androidbootstrap.com :) different project. :)
Indeed, there are some very exciting prospects here. The replacement therapy seems most promising. I developed a number of cavities out of the blue after I began aggressively using mouthwash - my theory is that I had a mostly benevolent strain of bacteria and accidentally killed them off, and they were eventually replaced with a nastier strain. If a harmless strain could be administered through vaccine or chewing gum, the societal effects would be enormous. Seems like the largest problem left (as usual, sadly) is getting it out of the lab.
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Even Quake optionally used some assembly code. According to https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/master/readme.txt the plain C version was running at half the speed of the one compiled with the assembly code, when not relying on hardware graphics acceleration.
>Howell knows how to do this

well why doesn't he explain how we safely present a system API to arbitrary code?

the whole point of the browser is to provide a method for cross platform ui, abstracting the display of an application from the underlying OS. if you were to want to support more than one operating system you'd have to recompile your binaries against all the system APIs that you wanted to support, sysV, winnt, darwin, etc...

and if you were to present an abstraction which would transparently handle the system API difference then you're looking at a JVM, which has been painfully demonstrated to be extremely hard to prevent escalations for, time and time again.
They've expanded into new countries, into mobile with both apps and Square-style card readers, into POS with at-register integrations in store chains, into identity management, into lending... if you think they're stagnant, maybe you haven't been paying attention to them.

https://www.x.com/products

They're also doing new vertical-oriented products for governments, banks and education.

https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/other-solutions-overview
I can't play around with code after the lesson is over. As a UX analyst, this bothers me. The interpreter shouldn't just shut down after the lesson is complete.
Indeed. From a SpaceNews article: "Orbcomm is relying on Hawthorne, Calif.-based SpaceX to launch all its second-generation satellites. Eight Orbcomm satellites are scheduled for launch aboard a Falcon 9 in mid-2013, with another 10 satellites scheduled for a 2014 Falcon 9 launch."

Besides polluting the relationship with SpaceX, raising a fuss would put their own plans into doubt. Orbcomm's stock price already fell 15% in the past week, I don't think they need more trouble:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=ORBC+Interactive#symbol=o...;
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These numbers are always big mostly because it's a good occasion for big companies to let go bad employees even if they don't have strong public reasons. I.e. it's easier to say: "it's not you.. 399 other employees are leaving".
Check out the Merck v Integra case on the page you linked to.

That was what I was thinking of. Section 271. Subsection (e) and maybe another one or two.
Yes but Microsoft has Windows, Office, Xbox, Surface, Bing, Skype, etc. PayPal is a big business with many features, but 13,000 people is a lot for just that one thing. I can't believe even half of them are developers.
Well yes - it's frankly impressive enough that it's possible to get insurance to cover putting your satellite on one of SpaceX's rockets. Speaks well to the future of private space travel that there are institutions willing to take that bet, at a price commercial customers of SpaceX are evidently willing to pay.
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Apparently SpaceX weren't the only ones with engine problems this week. The Delta 4 launch had some anomalies as well. Hard engineering is hard.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/11/satellite-investig...
agreed. I was surprised at the number of responses to the contrary. this 'idea' is nothing new, nothing innovative, and has been proven to be a terrible approach by history time and time again.
"Moreover, it's all very well arguing that your contribution has raised £X for the client (for some impressively large X) and so you are worth a significant chunk of that £X in fees, but this relies on the fact that the client can't buy a contribution of equal worth to them for a lower price elsewhere. There are numerous highly skilled freelancers who by their nature are always looking for the next job, and [...] you simply aren't going to be competitive at 10x the going rate. Sure, maybe you're worth it, but that still doesn't help if any of 20 other people with a similar skill set is willing to do the job to a similar standard but for only 2x the going rate."

This is why Mr. McKenzie is forever telling people "don't be a commodity." You are describing competition among commodity programmers. Don't be a commodity. You can - and I am paraphrasing him here - take yourself almost entirely out of the "commodity programmer" pool by a number of simple changes, such as not calling yourself a programmer, quantifying the business value you're adding, and negotiating confidently (part of which is not anchoring the price of your work to the price of commodity work).

You have more power than you think to stop being an interchangeable part. Being an interchangeable part sucks, you're right! Mr. McKenzie is trying to point out to you that you can stop.
I agree with your comment. I wanted you to know that I fatfingered the up vote... And gave you a downvote. I apologize.

Here's to many, many more private space successes!
I believe Safari already did this in the 6.0 version. I hadn't upgraded my Flash and I got a [Plugin Blocked] message wherever there should be some flash content.

After upgrading Flash I started seeing ads there again :P Not sure if upgrading was the right thing to do :D
Not alone, I asked the same question once: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4177693

but since I've got to the conclusion, that the more the merrier, if DHH said "we have too many web frameworks, let's just invest in PHP / ASP.NET / Struts / JSP / JSF / Spring MVC" then we wouldn't have had Ruby on Rails.

If John Resig said "we have too many JS frameworks, let me just invest in mootools / dojo toolkit / scriptaculous" then we wouldn't have had jQuery probably (although some were created around the same time, but let's not allow facts to ruin my point")

So the answer, no you are not alone thinking this, but it doesn't matter, people will create more, and we all have to thank them for doing so.
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I'm confused about one part of your analysis. You write that Q^k_l = Q^(k-1)_(l+1) * (1 - 1/(l+1)), but it's not obvious to me why the multipler, (1 - 1/(l+1)), is correct in general (past the second sweep). I went so far as to write a little bit of code to calculate various values of Q^3_l, exactly, from values of Q^2_(l+1), for an 8-element array, and found that it did not hold. (I assume that you were assuming that the initial array permutations were picked uniformly from the set of all permutations). Have I done something wrong or missed something totally obvious?

Thanks!
Due to the engine shutdown, the Falcon 9 used slightly more fuel and oxygen to reach Dragon's intended 202 mile- (325-km) high orbit.

For the ride up, SpaceX stashed chocolate-vanilla swirl ice cream inside.

the amount of liquid oxygen "was only enough to achieve a roughly 95 percent likelihood of completing the second burn..."

882 pounds (400 kg) of cargo aboard the Dragon capsule

The cynic in my wonders: would they have calculated a 99% likelihood if they hadn't sent the ice cream and had about .1% less cargo?
When you have a quarter billion users of a money transfer product with 24/7 support, you probably need a pretty big service staff. I'd imagine customer support, tech support and administrative staff outnumber developers.
I'm not sure you can have a "landslide" with a sample size of 24...
pretty cool! nice work on this.
Additionally, when there is a potentially negative association with a particular political choice (i.e. the choice of something other than pg's preferred option), one will obviously refuse to report, and will usually not make one's refusal explicit. That is to say, that even were we to assume that the 32 people pg asked were utterly representative of the startup community as a whole (which I don't think we have grounds to do, esp. given pg's own sensationalist headline), we have every reason to suspect that the 9 people who have refused to answer (including explicitly and implicitly) may have an answer other than the expected norm.

Take that into account, and you have
15 Obama
6 Romney
9 Refuse to answer

Where does that leave us? Well, with more questions than answers, to start with.
abstracting away the client/server separation seems like a problem many people want to solve. It's debatable whether it's been solved in the best way we can solve it yet... so I don't see why people should stop trying.

What are you worried about, exactly?
For the average user & developer, PayPal is the same mess today as it was 5 years ago. That is the stagnation.
But to take one of your examples, they started offering Square style card readers after Square did. So at that point they're just catching up with the market.

Not stagnant, but definitely not innovative.
Usually these kinds of demos are the same as the ones touting the virtues of Haskell's laziness. The visualization is really nice, though, along with the possible paralleization. I think the Par monad is a more interesting comparison, honestly.

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/monad-par/0.3/do...
very good points